ACORN blames Republicans for their crimes

Yeah, you knew it was coming, didn’t you? ACORN released a statement today blaming Republicans for the Obama Administration blowing the whistle on their criminal activities. So what if they had to fire four employees who tried to help a supposed pimp and trafficker in the underage sex slave trade, it’s those damn Republicans (Washington Times link);

“It is no coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction,” Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s chief organizer, said in a press release Saturday. “It is clear they’ve had these tapes for months.”

Ms. Lewis said conservative forces were conspiring to make ACORN the “Willie Horton for 2009,”

Bertha Lewis doesn’t mind that her employees were involving her and the organization in a conspiracy to defraud the government, not to mention the forced degradation of minors. Nope – she’s worried about the political implications.

Not to worry – they may have lost the Commerce Department gig, but they’ve still got HUD money rolling into their coffers according to Fox News;

ACORN Housing Corporation received $1.6 million to provide housing services to low-income communities in this fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, according to USASpending.gov, a federal government Web site for tracking government grants.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Grants has given $8.2 million to ACORN in the years between 2003 and 2006, as well as $1.6million to ACORN affiliates.

So all of those enterprising pimps still have hope.

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